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P6 Enhancement Requests 2011
Version 8.1 and beyond

2. Oracle Primavera Users Special Interest Group: OPSIG
Categories
1. Import/Export
2. Printing
3. Activity Views
4. Comparison & Analysis
5. Updates & Progressing
6. Gantt Chart & Bars
7. Budgeting & Costs
8. Activity Details
9. Global Change
10.User Experience

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1. Import/Export
• More formats than XML for import
• Ability to export views with a project
• A “data stripping” feature to allow clean imports
without meta data such as codes, upon import
• Options to “mark” import meta data so those
resources, codes, UDF, etc are tagged as part of the
imported project (IE: xx-Bob Smith, xx-Change #456)
• Ability to export multiple projects in one XML file
• Check box options where, if calendar doesn’t match,
make project calendar. Same with UDF and cost
accounts

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2. Printing
• Ability to highlight an activity and print WSIWYG
• Print preview on all views
• Print 12 months to a page of a non-working calendar
• Print to 11 X 17 page and to plotters

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3. Activity Views
• Ability to send project views when copying a project.
• A steps column to display progress of steps (eg, Step
5 of 9 complete).
• Ability to highlight an activity or to use conditional
formatting.
• “Lag” as a column.
• Ability to filter the logic in a Gantt chart (eg., filter and
show only driving, etc.).
• Add notebooks to trace logic view.
• Create a floating pallette of resource allocations
histograms so can be seen with activity table.
• Ability to lock a view.

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4. Comparison & Analysis
• Ability to compare baseline activity calendars to
project activity calendars
• Ability to auto-level a reflection or copy of a project
and to have a “leveled dates” field to compare to non-
leveled dates
• Ability to compare EV from period to period

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5. Updates & Progressing
• Utilize start and finish dates from the baseline rather
than planned dates (problematic once baseline
contains progress)
• Update actuals figure by start and finish rather than
by planned dates or provide an option
• Suspend and resume often default to midnight and
should be separated from the time setting
• In Progress Reporter input provide option to allow a
single input to parse over a week

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6. Gantt Charts & Bars
• Ability to group in the Gantt chart
• When no baseline is set Gantt chart should show no
bars
• More color options for Summary bars, perhaps based
on WBS

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7. Budgeting & Costs
• Provide different currencies at the project level
instead of as an Application Level Setting
• Top down budgeting returned as a feature
• Provide more than 5 rate types for roles and
resources
• Enhanced use of P6 as an estimating tool

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8. Activity Details
• Ability to customize a details “portlet” on activities
screen, eg., UDFs, assigned codes, etc.
• Provide a tab for user defined fields just as General,
Status, etc.

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9. Global Change
• Ability to batch global changes
• Enhanced global change to overcome start and finish
not being equal to actuals on a baseline

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10. User Experience
• Embed UPK “do it” into P6
• Allow CTRL+F search feature
• Ability to create a schedule using a logic diagram
which then creates the WBS from grouping and the
activities from boxes
• Feature to drag and drop WBS elements
• More clarity in the installation documentation
• Provide a combined F9 and F5 so screen refresh
happens when project is scheduled

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THANK YOU!
Daniel Williams, OPSIG President
Elaine Krazer, PMP; OPSIG P6 Lead